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JUST BREAKING NOW:

MARINE GETS NO JAIL TIME

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57365179/marine-gets-no-jail-time-for-haditha-killings/

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Thank God no jail time, Frank Wuterich can get on with his life.

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In Iraq, residents of the Euphrates river town of Haditha were angered by the fact that not one of the eight Marines initially charged will be convicted of manslaughter. A survivor of the killings, Awis Fahmi Hussein, showed his scars from being hit by a bullet in the back. "I was expecting that the American judiciary would sentence this person to life in prison and that he would appear and confess in front of the whole world that he committed this crime, so that America could show itself as democratic and fair," he said.

Like the little girl who knew the bomb was set to go off, there are citizens of this stretch of Haditha who know they were firing on these Marines that morning.

They know that Wuterich's complete exhoneration would have been justice, and that America's judicial system failed one of it's warriors.

But, they know, and they will answer some day.